Welcome to Daytona Beach – Daytona Beach city officials and Volusia County officials join in extending a sincere welcome to the motorcyclists and motorcycle race supporters from all sections of the United States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba attending the annual winter speed classics here this season. For those who attend the beach events annually, the 100-mile amateur and 200-mile expert national championship races are nothing new – They know what to expect – and many of the interesting places to visit while in the Daytona Beach area. But for you newcomers who are making your first visit to Daytona Beach, be sure to visit the many interesting places in this area – and certainly Marineland, located about 35 miles north of Daytona Beach on U.S. Highway AIA. Daytona Beach, as you probably know, is the World’s Most Famous Beach – a beach that extends for 24 miles over a stretch that you can drive your car. This extends from the inlet section just below the South turn of the four-mile beach and road cours northward above Ormand. At low tide you can drive 24 miles along the world’s greatest beach – one made famous by racing experts with their many types of machines. Racing comes naturally at Daytona Beach. The strand has long been famous for many racing activities – dating back from the days of Sir Malcolm Campbell and all the other international stars who tested their speed machines over the sand. The annual Daytona Beach motorcycle classics have been staged annually, excepting war years, since 1937 – and they have become known as the world’s greatest motorcycle races – over the world’s most famous beach. So for all you racers and race fans – it’s a sincere welcome to Daytona Beach and Volusia County – and here’s looking forward to your return in future years.

Cycle Racing 1970. A Guide to motorcycle sprot by the editors of Cycle Magazine. Inside the Sport: The Stars, Events, Machines, Tuning Tips, plus a big how-to section, and tests of 8 racers you can buy!

Grand Island, Neb., July 4 1918 – Don Johns of Los Angeles, came home the winner in the 100-mile motorcycle race, the main event of a fast card of speed stuff pulled here this afternoon before some 5000 people. Johns piloted his Indian into first place, covering the 55 laps of the 1.8 mile track in one hour, twenty-two minutes and ten seconds. Frank Wood of Omaha astride a Harley-Davidson was place second; Hugh Murray of Denver rode an Indian into third place, while Floyd Clymer of Greely Colo., finished fourth on his Excelsior…

Gary Nixon – a proifile and history on Daytona’s 1967 double winner and one of America’s top racing stars.

Gary Nixon thinks it was Everett Brashear who first told him: “You want to be a racer, kid, you better start sticking your wheel in there with the leaders. You better make up your mind you can do it. No one will do it for you.” An impressionalbe 21-year old at the time, Nixon instinctively took Brashear’s advice. “I wanted to be a racer, I was out of money, and it was the only thing I could do. I started running every small and big race I could besides all the Nationals.”…

Cover Photo: a selection of pictures taken by Jack Mercer during the Laconia, New Hampshire, Motorcycle Week, June 18-23; Canadian Grand Prix International; Gary Nixon wins Windber National; Another 8-mile National for Al Gunter; Two Big Moto-Cross meetings in Britain; Scrambles racing on two continents; World’s Fastest Land Vehicle / Craig Breedlove “Spirit of America”; George Roeder captures Springfield National on Harley-Davidson; more

The Overhead-cam Excelsior “61” was one of the fastest track machines ever built. L. to R. – Wells Bennett, Bob Perry, John McNeil, and Joe Wolters. Perry crashed fatally on this machine a few minutes after picture was taken.

Dewayne Keeter, 21, is picking up trophies around California tracks at a blistering pace…

Triumph Bonneville Winner of British 500-Mile Production Race – in the photo, Barry Lawton shown on the 650 Triumph Bonneville which he and his partner Dave Degans rode to overall and 1000cc class victories in the British 500-mile production machine race at Castle Combe, England. Second in both categories were Anthony Smith and Nicholas Ling…

Front Cover: Gary Scott – Defending champion Gary currently holds down the top spot in this year’s Camel Pro Series, and the 23-year old Baldwin Park rider tries for his second straight Ascot T.T. national win tonight.

A little over a year ago, Ernst Degner was an East German national figure as the leader of the M.Z. road racing team. In 1960 he had won Grands Prix in Belgium and East Germany and his success in 1961 was such that he started the season with a second place in the Spanish GP, won the West German at Hockenheim, was 2nd in the French but struck disaster in the Dutch for a practice crash broke his elbow…

Once again, Harley-Davidson motorcycles have proved their right to the title, All-American. In the 1952 National Tourist Trophy Championships, Harley-Davidson riders Bill Miller and Roger Soderstrom virtually dominated the day’s races.

Who would win now that AMA rules okayed 750cc ohv engines and rear brakes? Said Freddie Nix, “It’s about my turn.” …People ordinarily wouldn’t go a long way to see a race in a little town in Pennsylvania Dutch country called Nazareth. Not in a season with 28 nationals. Not when less than half a dozen had been run and the championship points race hadn’t even begun to get hot. Not unless Nazareth had something special to offer…Nazareth promised the first real confrontation between AMA big-bore flattrackers…